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Favourite Irish Brand / Company of all time?

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  • #32
    fryup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,067 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    Mr.Biscuits wrote: »
    Was in that new Mr Simms Sweet Shop earlier today in town (the same Town Phil Lynnott was referring to when he just said Town without feeling the need to specify in which county he was meaning) and bought a whole bunch of old favs.


    but the song starts with a cockney accent so i persume he wrote it with london in mind


  • #33
    Orando Broom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,351 ✭✭✭Orando Broom


    Bacon and Cabbage™


  • #34
    foxyboxer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,528 ✭✭✭foxyboxer


    Michael Guineys.


  • #35
    marketty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,066 ✭✭✭marketty


    KVI
    I loved the wilful, deliberate minimalist ****tiness of the packaging


  • #36
    Nothingbetter2d
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,037 ✭✭✭Nothingbetter2d


    Corcorans Minerals the first to do those 3l bottles


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  • #37
    Autumn Moon
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    Oatfield. Emerald toffees........ mmmmm. Chocolate Eclairs........mmmmmm.....:pac:


  • #38
    counterlock
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,954 ✭✭✭counterlock


    NAMA - worlds largest property portfolio
    or Kerry group


  • #39
    harmoniums
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 536 ✭✭✭harmoniums


    I'm partial to the Smurfit Groups line of excellent cardboard boxes.
    They're a bit dry though, so I have to use lubricant like some kind of common yank.

    but just look at that corrugation!
    Just look at it!

    http://www.bloomberg.com/image/i1o_rwxWEw8g.jpg


  • #40
    fishy fishy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,456 ✭✭✭fishy fishy


    green shield stamp anyone? :D


  • #41
    harmoniums
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 536 ✭✭✭harmoniums


    fishy fishy wrote: »
    green shield stamp anyone? :D

    jebus that takes me back.
    What about the sweepstakes where the nurses have to pull a pair of underpants out of a dryer?
    They all line up in a line and yank out the kacks, and if they are your pair, you win money.

    edit, I just found the picture

    http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/10/Irish_hospitals_sweepstake.jpg

    Man those drawings looked cool, it seems like they took place in the circus maximus


    another picture

    http://www.gambling-guide.poker.tj/images/hungarian-state-lottery_clip_image004.jpg

    the front loading door on those dryers were tiny back them, its amazing how much bigger you remember things


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  • #42
    harmoniums
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    marketty wrote: »
    KVI
    I loved the wilful, deliberate minimalist ****tiness of the packaging

    Keener Value Industries, or Known Value Item

    thats the two explanations of the acronym I heard


  • #43
    fishy fishy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,456 ✭✭✭fishy fishy


    harmoniums wrote: »
    jebus that takes me back.
    What about the sweepstakes where the nurses have to pull a pair of underpants out of a dryer?
    They all line up in a line and yank out the kacks, and if they are your pair, you win money.

    edit, I just found the picture

    http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/10/Irish_hospitals_sweepstake.jpg

    Man those drawings looked cool, it seems like they took place in the circus maximus


    another picture

    http://www.gambling-guide.poker.tj/images/hungarian-state-lottery_clip_image004.jpg

    the front loading door on those dryers were tiny back them, its amazing how much bigger you remember things


    ya, it was the sweeps wasn't it. They modernised the machines tho to ones that looked more like front load washing machines.


  • #44
    harmoniums
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    foxyboxer wrote: »
    Michael Guineys.

    I preferred Bolands across the street, they had a proper auld wan cafe upstairs.


  • #45
    fishy fishy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,456 ✭✭✭fishy fishy


    stp stickers all over your school book covers (which were always seemed to be covered in wallpaper). You could tell what somebodys house looked like by looking at their school books. :D


  • #46
    Mr.Biscuits
    Closed Accounts Posts: 750 ✭✭✭Mr.Biscuits


    Orando Broom wrote: »
    Bacon and Cabbage™

    ©oddle.


  • #47
    Teyla Emmagan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,638 ✭✭✭Teyla Emmagan


    Kerrygold. There is no better butter on earth.


  • #48
    AnonoBoy
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    It's got to be King Tayto.


  • #49
    policarp
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    Roadstone. . .


  • #50
    counterlock
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,954 ✭✭✭counterlock


    AnonoBoy wrote: »
    It's got to be King Tayto.

    Possibly the worlds greatest taytos.


  • #51
    elefant
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,697 ✭✭✭elefant


    Off the top of my head I'd say Club.

    Fanta is a poor substitute for Club Orange, Lemon and Rock Shandy. Club drinks are one thing I always buy when I'm home.


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  • #52
    policarp
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    Ballygowan. Irelands answer to Perrier once upon a time. . .


  • #53
    rgmmg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 543 ✭✭✭rgmmg


    Kerrygold.

    You can find it all over the world, and I've even bought it in the depths of Africa. Bars of gold and, unlike Guinness, a proper Irish brand!


  • #54
    grey_so_what
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,749 ✭✭✭✭grey_so_what


    fishy fishy wrote: »
    i think cream soda is a new thing compared to the lemonades and oranges. Never had it as a kid and has only become popular in the last few years (correct me if I am wrong) - I think it is more of an american thing, like root beer for instance.

    Also, coke was never the big drink when I was a kid, There would never be coke brought into the house - we could either have orange or lemonade or sometimes lemon, and the lemonade usually came in a big heavy glass bottle, and you would have a glass of it with sunday dinner and it was a MAJOR TREAT. you would watch your other brothers/sisters to see who would have the most left at any one time. You'de nearly be afraid to drink it, cause it would be gone. :o:o

    fishy fishy, (unfortunately!) I can go back about 40 years on the TK Cream Soda - used to be called American Cream Soda with the american flag on the label...It used to be produced in the summer in our house and we used to put ice cream in it (club orange also) and call it an iced soda!!!lol!:)


  • #55
    grey_so_what
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    fryup wrote: »
    but the song starts with a cockney accent so i persume he wrote it with london in mind

    Dublin Town was Phil Lynott's beloved home!..Have a look at the video where he is walking through Dublin singing it!...One of the all time greats!

    Don't have a link to it I'm sorry to say (make a mess of it all the time trying!:()
    Sorry!


  • #56
    ScumLord
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    Tesco Massacre wrote: »
    TK red lemonade.
    They don't sell the stuff over here in England, I haven't had a Jameson and red in maybe a year but now that I can't buy one all I want is a jamey and red.


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